Day: September 17, 2010

  • The use of the term “colored” was coined by mixed-race people (Ottley 1968:95).  In the eighteenth century this population and their descendants created their own caste system, which was marked by color and class. In one case in South Carolina, mixed-race people formed the Brown Fellowship Society, an exclusive mulatto organization that I will discuss…

  • The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005) pages 34-49 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing…